Suburban Ski Day
A sunny Sunday afternoon in January was the perfect day to go check out a few kilometers of trails through a local green (winter white) space in the Edmonton suburbs.
Snakes, Ditches, Mud, and Ticks
Each summer for the last few I’ve hosted a small adventure club for a group of my running friends. We call them Adventure Runs, though running occasionally turns out to be only a minor component of the adventure. So…. once again it is summer, and once again yesterday morning I…
The Mystery of Big Island (Part Three)
It’s been nearly a year and a whole long winter of impassable trails through the river valley since I posted an update about the work being done to turn a small bit of land with a big local history into a small provincial park. The last time we thought about…
Travel: Fruits, Wines, and a Weekend Half
Two years ago this past weekend the world was a very different place. The world was different enough that we had no issues hopping into the car, driving for nearly ten hours straight, and wending our way across the prairies, over the rocky mountain passes, and into the verdant Okanagan…